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#19778: fix a couple of re reprs in the documentation.

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Ezio Melotti 2013-11-25 22:47:01 +02:00
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@ -271,8 +271,8 @@ performing string substitutions. ::
>>> import re
>>> p = re.compile('ab*')
>>> p #doctest: +ELLIPSIS
<_sre.SRE_Pattern object at 0x...>
>>> p
re.compile('ab*')
:func:`re.compile` also accepts an optional *flags* argument, used to enable
various special features and syntax variations. We'll go over the available
@ -383,8 +383,8 @@ Python interpreter, import the :mod:`re` module, and compile a RE::
>>> import re
>>> p = re.compile('[a-z]+')
>>> p #doctest: +ELLIPSIS
<_sre.SRE_Pattern object at 0x...>
>>> p
re.compile('[a-z]+')
Now, you can try matching various strings against the RE ``[a-z]+``. An empty
string shouldn't match at all, since ``+`` means 'one or more repetitions'.